I have a polygon layer of postal code areas and I want to use them to create sales territories based on where our sales people are based. So I assume that I need to work out for each of the polygons which is the nearest point on the sales person point layer. I suppose that I could do this on the nearest part of the polygon or the centroid ... I don't think it would make much difference.

Can someone point me in the direction of what this type of analysis is even called?

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The hub distance tool iterates through each feature on the source
points layer and finds the closest "hub" from the destination hubs
layer based on Ellipsoidal distance. The output is a shapefile
containing all the attributes from the source layer along with a
distance field and the name of the hub based on an attribute selected
in the Hub Layer Name Attribute box.